Sole-staining machine



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No. 483,944. Patented Oct. 4, 1892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

P. L. RICHARDSON. SOLE STAINING MACHINE.

No. 483,944. Patented 001;. 4, 14892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED L. RICHARDSON, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOLE-STAINING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 483,944, dated October 4, 1892. Application led December 1l, 1399. 4Serial No.` 374,375. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED L. RICHARDSON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the town of Milford, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and Improved Machine for Staining Boot or Shoe Soles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an organized maf' chine to be used in staining soles of boots or shoes. This machine, in substance, comprises a suitable standard or post for the support of the working and stationary parts of the machine, a continuously-rotating brush, a continuously and rectilinearly reciprocating brush, and mechanism for driving each brush, in combination with air-suction chutes or ducts, one for and leading from each brush at o r near its plane of operation, and all otherwise, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

In the drawings, A is a hollow standard or post having a leg-base A3, and at its upper end portion horizontal side extensions A3 A4 in opposite directions from the post, and below said extensions is a horizontal shelf A5, the whole making the support for the several Working and stationary parts of the machine.

B B2 are fixed and loose pulleys of a horizontal shaft B3, that turns in suitable bearings at the lower end portion of the post A. The shaft B3 is the driving-shaft of the machine, and the pulleys are to be suitably belted from the driving power to secure the driving of the shaft.

C is a fixed vertical gear-wheel of the driv# ing-shaft B3 and in mesh with a horizontal gear-wheel C2 at lower end of a vertical shaft i land thence by its two lengths it passes over separate vertical guide-pulleys H H2 of a common horizontal shaft H3, which turns in sultable bearings of the side extension A3 of post A, and thence to and around the under side of a vertical pulley H4 on a horizontal axle H3, turning in bearings of a horizontal arm J, that is at the under side of and is secured to saidv side extension A3 by a screw-bolt ct, passing through a lengthwise slotb of said extension kand the thickness of said arm .I and screw-nuts d screwed onto the projecting end of said bolt. Tightening up the screw-nuts d rmly attaches the arm .I to said side extension A3 of post A, and loosening the screw'-v nuts releases said arm for movement on said side extension to adjust the pulley H4, as may be found necessary.

K is a horizontal and cylindrical brush sei cured on axle H5 of, and rotating in common with, pulley H4. This brush is continuously rotated by the pulley and belt connection j ust explained from the rotation of the vertical shaft C3. u

D2 is a strap surrounding the eccentric D. This strap is at one end of a horizontal rod D3, that extends along the under side of the side extension A4 of post A and is fulcrumed and secured thereon by means of a screw-bolt f and screw-nuts g g, screwed onto the opposite ends of said bolt. The screw-bolt f passes loosely through an 'elongated block D4, located in a lengthwise slot h of the rod D3 of eccentric-strap D3.

L is a flat brush secured to rod D3 at its outer end and under side.

By the eccentric and other means of connection above described the flat brush L is continuously' and rectilinearly reciprocated by the rotation of t-he Vertical shaft C3, driven as explained.

The rotating and the rectilinearly-reciproeating brushes described are on opposite sides of the post of the machine and both are 0perated, as explained, by a common vertical ICO and in the second case is rubbed, as it we-re,

are provided-one for each of the brushes.

Each chute leads from at or near the plane of operation of the brush to which it belongs to the inside of the post A, all so that with an air-suction blower M, (shown in blank and of any or the well-known forms ofconstructiony and arrangement of parts of itself constituting no portion of this invention,) suitably located in relation to the open ends of saidI i chutes within the post and suitably driven,

air will be drawn through the chutesfroml their open ends near the brushes, carrying with it the dust thrown off by each of the brlushes in its operation on the boot or shoe so e.

N is a basin seated in a recess A6 at the upper side of the shelf A5 of the post A. This basin is for holding' the liquid material to be used for staining boot or shoe soles, and to keep this material from settling an agitating device is used, composed, for instance, of horizontal arms O O and a common vertical shaft O2, arranged to turn in suitable bearings of the post and having at its upper end portion a pulley P, driven by a belt Q from the pulley E of the vertical shaft C3 of the machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hollow post A, with horizontal arm extensions A3 A4 at its upper end and on its opposite sides, a rotating vertical shaft O3 within said post, an eccentric -D and vpulley F on said shaft and above said side arms, a rectilinear and horizontal reciprocating brush L of said arm A4, a rotating brush K of said arm A3, means to reciprocate said brush L,

consisting of said eccentric D, an eccentricstrap D4, having an extension D3, with a slot L-an-d a block fitting and held in said slot h and to said arm A4 by screw-bolts f and nuts g, and means to rotate said brush K, consisting of said pulley F, a pulley H4 of the brush, guide-pulleys H H2 of said arm A3, and a belt Gr, connecting said pulleys F H4 and guided by said guide-pulleys H H2, in combination with air-chutes R R2, respectively, leading downward from said brushes K L and both opening into the hollow post A, and an air suction blower adapted and arranged to draw air downward through said chutes and to discharge into said post, all as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

l FRED L. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN. 

